First Look: CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #1 – EC Comics Rockets Through Brutal and Barren Alien Worlds This August!
EC’s SUMMER OF FEAR Continues As the Eisner Award-Nominated Series Returns with All-New Volume from Greg Pak & Charlie Adlard, Ann Nocenti & Kano J. Holtham & David Rubîn, and More!
PORTLAND, OR (July 10th, 2025) – ALAS, THE CRUSHING WEIGHT OF GRAVITY ONLY PULLS ONE WAY: DOWN! ! Oni Press, the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are proud to deliver your first look inside CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #1 – crashlanding in comic shops across the galaxy on August 6th from an all-star cast of comics’ most depraved scientific minds as EC Comics’ best-selling, Eisner Award-nominated ode to cosmic annihilation returns with an powerful new 12-issue maxi-series … and a colossally oversized, 40-page first issue!
Whether future or past, Earth or a distant world, no man can outrun the infinite singularity within us all: FEAR! Join this doomed expedition into the cold, unforgiving galaxies beyond our own as nihilistic navigators Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead), J. Holtham (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss), Kano (Immortal Iron Fist), Ann Nocenti (Daredevil), David Rubín (Sherlock Frankenstein), and Greg Pak (Planet Hulk) smash the laws of science . . . and splice the immortal EC Comics genome into a new breed of parasitic extraterrestrial tales with an endless appetite for pain!
Plus, as an added bonus: A nerve-rending science-fiction classic from the EC vaults, painstakingly remastered and newly restored to its original coloring!
BEYOND SPACE, BEYOND OBLIVION. . . . There is something vast, unsympathetic, and envious that yearns to consume us all in this CRUEL UNIVERSE! Let’s make it work for it, shall we?Featuring atom-colliding covers from Lee Bermejo (Joker), Tom Fowler (Books of Magic), Albert Monteys (Universe!,), Malachi Ward (Black Hammer: The End), and Liam Sharp (Green Lantern), CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #1 will pull you across the event horizon and into the inescapable maw of galactic terror. Fun, yes?!
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EC CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #1
WRITTEN BY J. HOLTHAM, ANN NOCENTI & GREG PAK
ART BY CHARLIE ADLARD, KANO & DAVID RUBÍN
COVER A BY LEE BERMEJO
COVER B BY TOM FOWLER
GOLD FOIL VARIANT ($8.99) BY LEE BERMEJO
EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY ALBERT MONTEYS
B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY TOM FOWLER
ARCHIVE EDITION (1:50) BY MALACHI WARD
SQUA TRONT VARIANT (1:100) BY LIAM SHARP WITH TOM FOWLER
BLANK SKETCH VARIANT AVAILABLE
ON SALE AUGUST 6th, 2025 | $4.99 | 40 PAGES | FC
IOC: 6/26/2025
FOC: 7/14/2025
